[dietmtnview]

use webpack for bundling and typescript for typechecking. not that far off from the typescript + babel workflow and way less overhead. just use tsc as a linter.

https://iamturns.com/typescript-babel/

and someone else pointed out that esbuild drops typechecking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33336803

[Nathanba]

>use webpack for bundling and typescript for typechecking

This is my point, that's what I'm doing. Webpack does the typechecking and the bundling together, you don't get broken bundles when the typecheck didn't succeed (unless you really want to, you can configure that too).

>and someone else pointed out that esbuild drops typechecking.

yes I know, these "faster" bundlers all drop typechecking which results in these unfair comparisons. Then I always end up spending a somewhat large amount of time checking these tools out only to realize that they are not doing a fair comparison.

[dietmtnview]

> you don't get broken bundles when the typecheck didn't succeed

ah, I do TDD. easier to let tests give me runtime and behavioral feedback instead of refreshing/setting up hot reloads. I could see how it's frustrating without that. super frustrating to do a quick experiment/demo and satisfy ts if the compiler breaks all the time tho.